Board Stiffed

Updated Sept. 10, 2001 12:01 a.m. ET

When Al Gore reminisced to the Teamsters about his mother singing him to sleep with "Look for the Union Label" -- a jingle that turned out not to have been written until he was 27 -- the hoots and catcalls came quickly. Well, just about one year later, George W. Bush now appears to be having similar troubles carrying his own union tune. And as much as we'd like to lay the blame at the feet of Big Labor or obstructionist Democrats, it really belongs to a White House shop that has yet to put its people where its mouth...